On the 17th Beijing time, the BWF Super Series Korea Masters ended in Gwangju. The Chinese team appeared in three finals, after the season's "debut" German Open, once again won 2 gold and 3 silver, and still performed strongly in the dominant events - women's singles and mixed doubles. After collectively withdrawing from the Swiss Open, Guoyu sent five singles players and a mixed doubles pair to participate in the Super 500-level Korean Open earlier this month, and no one advanced to the top four except for Weng Hongyang, who won the men's singles championship.
The "Yellow Duck" group won his first individual title of the season.
The Korea Masters is a super 300-level event, although the level is low, but due to the number of new pairs in the team that need to compete for points, the Chinese team, which has been resting for half a month, is still fully "coming back", except for the absence of Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, who is ranked first in the women's doubles world, all the players participating in this foreign training competition are all participating. The main force of the Japanese team and the European famous players are basically absent, and the competition of this station is mainly between China, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and other teams.
After six days of competition, the Chinese team finally won the championship and runner-up in the women's singles and mixed doubles, showing its strong overall strength in the two singles. In the women's singles, the Chinese team occupied three places in the top four. No. 4 seed He Bingjiao swept the No. 2 seed in the semifinals, and the host star An Xianying, who had just been sealed at the Korean Open, then defeated the top seed of the tournament and Olympic champion Chen Yufei after the German match to win the second crown of the season.
He Bingjiao defeated Chen Yufei twice in the final.
The mixed doubles final also took place among Chinese players, with top seeds Wang Yilu / Huang Dongping defeating teammates Ou Xuanyi / Huang Yaqiong in straight sets to win the title for the first time this season. During the promotion process, the "Yellow Duck Combination" lost one set in the first round against teammates Guo Xinwa / Liu Xuanxuan, and the rest of the rounds were swept through and performed strongly. The German "debut", ou xuanyi / Huang Yaqiong, who won the runner-up with a stunning performance, recovered after winning only one win in the Korean Open, eliminating Indonesia's world youth champion Rivaldi / Menthari, no. 4 seed Wu Shunfa / Lai Jiemin from Malaysia and other masters.
In addition, Ou Xuanyi also partnered with Beijing's famous Liu Yuchen to reach the final again after germany. Although they eventually lost to hosts Kim Ki-jong /Kim Sharon, the two narrowly defeated the No. 5 seed, Indonesian rising star Calnando/Martin, and the 1/4 final against the No. 2 seed and South Korean star Ko Sung-hyun /Shin Baek-cheol, which was not bad.
Men's Singles No. 4 seed Lu Guangzu stopped in the quarterfinals.
In women's doubles, the new combination Du Yue / Li Wenmei won two pairs of teammates in a row to reach the top 8, and fought hard for 110 minutes in the semifinals, but lost to the 2017 World Youth Championship champion and South Korean team Li Youlin / Bai Hona. In the men's singles competition, the Chinese team, which lacked Olympians, sent four people to participate, and in the absence of all the top 10 players in the world rankings, only one person broke into the top 8, and no one reached the semifinals.
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